I always knew the MSBA program would be a bit of a challenge for me, given that I had no previous coding background. Also, the fast-paced learning experience hasn’t been that easy as well. These short three months of learning has been intense especially since I am back to school routine after a hiatus, and …
This week we learned about text analytics. Text analytics is one of the most powerful tools in analytics field because of its ability to analyze unstructured data. Unstructured data are things like text (from a video, document, voice recording, email, tweets, e.t.c.). Given that 80% of all the data is in unstructured form, there is …
This week we learned about writing our own custom functions in R. Lot of the packages that we use in R are functions created by other people, so learning to write our own functions is going to be really helpful in tackling specific problems to speed up the analyzing process. For our last week’s assignment, …
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This week, we switched gears from basics of data wrangling process to build regression models using R programming language. Earlier, we learnt regression modeling using SAS programming language, and now we will do the same but using R. During the class exercise, we used R to rebuild our previous housing price prediction model which we …
